Benchmarks:Toshiba Canvio Slim

If you’re considering purchasing an external hard drive, :Category:Benchmarks[
these benchmarks] should hopefully help clear up some questions you might have.
In this post, I benchmark my Toshiba
Canvio Slim hard drive. I’ve been using this drive for about a year now and
it has performed well for me. It has even taken a drop while it was plugged in
(it disconnected from the cable even). Here are the IO metrics from the great
GNU utility, dd